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> Both outsourcing and off-shoring are the result of
> globalization. It has
> nothing to do with the potential demise of technical writing,
> but it will
> affect your future pay scale.
Is that a positive effect or a negative effect? Occasionally, there is a
flurry of requests for "plain-English" technical writers from companies that
specify "no H-1 Visa support." My guess is that these jobs are possibly in
response to companies with documentation that was out-sourced or off-shored
to the extent that it is now unintelligible. This would seem like a good
opportunity for a contract technical writer to build a client-base and
subsequently charge a higher rate.
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